Carpet-fastener.



' 4 PATENTED MAY 15, 1906.

W. KERNOCHAN. CARPET PASTE-NEE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 19, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARPET -FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Jratenteu May 15, 1906.

Application filed January 19, 1906. Serial No. 296,768.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM KERNOCHAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to means for securing carpet to a floor or a pair of stairs; and the object thereof is to provide an improved device or devices for this purpose which may be conveniently used for securing a carpet, linoleum, or any other floor or stair-covering to a floor or to a pair of stairs or to any support to which it is desired to secure a carpet or other flexible covering.

The invention is fully disclosed in the fol lowing specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters, said drawing being a view showing a part of a flooring in section and showing a piece of car-- pet or other covering material placed thereon and my improved means for securing the carpet or covering material to the floor.

In the drawing forming a part of this specification I have shown at a a flooring, and at b a piece of carpet, linoleum, or other floor-covering material, and in the practice of my invention I provide a short tube 0, which is secured in the flooring or passed therethrough and secured therein, and in connection with the tube 0 I employ a tubular pin d, having a head d and a pointed end d Secured in the pin (1 is a spring 6, which ranges longitudinally thereof, and one end of which is secured in the head of the pin cl at 6 and the other end of which is provided with a hook member 6 which passes out through a corresponding hole in the side of the tubular pin d at a In practice the tube 0 is secured in the floor, and the carpet or other floor-covering is placed thereover, and the pin (Z is passed downwardly through the carpet or other floor-covering into and through the tube 0. In this operation an awl or similar device comprising a handle f, having a pin or shank member f is forced into the tubular pin (2, as clearly shown in the drawing, and this operation forces backwardly the hook member 6 of the spring 6, and the pin with the awl therein is forced downwardly through the carpet and through the tube 0, after which the awl is withdrawn and the hook member 6 of the spring 6 springs outwardly, as shown at the left of Fig. 1, and the pin (1 is locked in the tube 0, the hook member 6 of the spring 6 engaging the lower end of the said tube.

This device, as will be understood, may be used for securing ordinary carpets to floors, stair-carpets to stairs, or linoleum or any other floor-covering material to floors or to stairs and may also be used for analogous purposes in other relations.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

The herein-described means for securing carpets and other material to floors, stairs and the like, comprising a tube adapted to be secured in the floor or stairs, a hollow pin adapted to be passed through the carpet or other material and-through said tube and provided at one end with a head and at the other end with a point, said pin being also provided near the pointed end with a hole in one side thereof, and a spring secured in said pin and provided with a hook which normally projects outwardly through said hole, said hook being adapted to be forced inwardly by a device inserted into said pin, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 18th day of January, 1906.

WILLIAM KERNOOHAN.

Witnesses:

C. E. MULREANY, F. A. STEWART. 

